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Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.